Maine Memory Network

Blue Hill, Maine - Blue Hill Spearheads Development on the Downeast Coast

"… mentioned: containing a Neck of Land, Water, and Islands; and your petitioners as in Duty bound shall ever pray &c.” The area described in the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Project Sources

"Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast: Blue Hill and Penobscot Bays, 1982. —(LI) O’Leary, W.M. Maine Sea Fisheries: The Rise and Fall of a Native Industry…"

Bath's Historic Downtown - History Overview

"In 1738 Georgetown was enlarged by the addition of Parkers Island (the current Georgetown), Phippsburg, Woolwich and the area now known as Bath and…"

Blue Hill, Maine - Educating Blue Hill

"… in 1928, the Billings District in 1921, the Long Island District in 1920, and the West Blue Hill District in 1916."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 1 of 4

"Originally, the islands and the mainland were known as Stratton's Plantation. Settlement (1631-1674) Captain Thomas Cammock was the first legal…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Historical Overview - Page 4 of 4

"Bryant, 1907. Chase, Georgiana. Stratton's Islands of Saco Bay, An Interwoven History 1605-1993. Fort Bragg, CA: Mendocino Lithographers."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 3 of 7

"… used to argue that an absence of English-style houses and agriculture in an area meant an absence of any legal ownership."

Portland Public Library

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Fifth Maine Regiment Museum

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Early Maine Photography - Landscape Photography - Page 2 of 3

"Home of John Moreland Cummings, Richmond's Island, ca. 1855Maine Historical Society An ambrotype of Richmond’s Island in Cape Elizabeth shows the…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 4 of 4

"Fishermen who went toward Richmond Island stopped at a place called Deep Ledge and those from the Spurwink River would fish along that part of the…"

Blue Hill, Maine - A Real Downeast County Fair

"… there used to be (just think of all those "sheep islands" up and down the coast). 4H groups are still strong in surrounding communities, and there…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Benjamin Kimball, Bangor, ca. 1867

"… "When the 22 Regiment left Bangor for Ship Island he was the tallest & handsomest man in the regiment." Martin's illustration of Kimball and…"

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Maritime Tales: Shipyards and Shipwrecks - Page 2 of 2

"Encountering dense fog off Wood Island, Captain Lermond anchored off the eastern end of Stratton Island but dragged anchor onto a ledge during a gale."

Skowhegan Community History - Early Settlement in Skowhegan

"The land they claimed included islands along the Kennebec river. This land was already cleared out by the Indian tribe know as the Abennakis."

Maine Granite Industry Historical Society

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Wilson Museum

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Milbridge Historical Society

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Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - People Who Called Scarborough Home - Page 2 of 4

"… he served in the Continental Army in the Rhode Island campaign as aide-de-camp to General John Sullivan."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Catch of the Day: Clamming and Lobstering - Page 3 of 4

"… Waymouth, set a small fishing net near Monhegan Island and hauled up a net filled with various fish and “thirty very good and great lobsters.” In…"

National Archives at Boston

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Historic Hallowell - Early Industry and Bombahook

"… center right in the distance just above the boom islands in the Kennebec. Fuller FoundryHubbard Free Library Each of the businesses that…"

Seal Cove Auto Museum

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Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"They soon built a house on Mattanawcook Island, which is on the Penobscot River, near where the mill is today."